GayPeoplesChronicle.com – by Eric Resnick
Washington, D.C. – The controversial version of the gay and lesbian Employment Non-Discrimination Act that doesn’t include transgender people passed the House Education and Labor Committee last week and is expected to have a full House vote by month’s end.
The bill is what the House Democratic leadership wanted, but was overwhelmingly rejected by LGBT advocacy organizations, except the Human Rights Campaign, because it lacks protection on the basis of gender identity that was in the original bill.
An amendment to restore transgender protection will be offered when it comes to a House vote by Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the House’s only lesbian member and a critic of the strategy to pass the non-inclusive version.